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• Bradley John Hypki, Milwaukee WI († 1993)
• David John Leon Theis, Shakopee (Minnesota, VS († 2014)
• Dick Bosland († 1979)
• Lonnie Craig Pomranke, Worthington, Nobles Co., MN († 2014)
• Engelbertus Hendrikus Zonneveld, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Harm Groothuis, Groningen (Grunn), Groningen, Nederland († 1978)
• Loïk Jean Yves QUILLÉVÉRÉ, Brest, 29019, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 2001)
• Jacobus Boon, Bovenkarspel († 2020)
• AARTJE WILHELMINA VAN DE SCHEUR
• Greet Cools, Roeselare († 2024)

• Anna Maria Leisdom (74)
• Ada ABBOTT (ROBEY) (90), WashingboroughLincoln, Lincolnshire, England
• Albertus Martijn (71)
• Aleida Wilhelmina Welling (78), 's-Heerenberg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend ten Kleij (88), Den Haag
• Arentje Nutterts Hofstee (83), Echten
• Alva Dow Harrelson (74), Columbus County, North Carolina
• ? ? (66)
• Antonius H P M Lammers (65), Haarlem,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berta Walraven Borst (0), Amersfoort

• 1957 » Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
• 1957 » Jim Calder, Scottish rugby player
• 1958 » David O. Russell, American director and screenwriter
• 1958 » John Stehr, American journalist
• 1958 » Nigel Dodds, Northern Irish lawyer and politician
• 1958 » Patricia Rozema, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1960 » Dom Duff, Breton singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer
• 1960 » Mark Langston, American baseball player
• 1961 » Amanda Sonia Berry, English businesswoman
• 1962 » James Marsters, American actor

• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
• January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
• February 26 » A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
• April 9 » Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
• May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
• August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
• December 17 » Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.

The temperature on August 20, 1960 was between 11.2 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 15.9 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.